It is the sensativity of the touchpad, even though you may net be touching it. What you need is called Touchfreeze. It is a simple and safe utility and will work in both 32 and 64 bit environments. It disables the touchpad while you're typing. It is not an uncommon problem. This fixes you right up.

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posted on 11/20/2012 3:48:43 PM PST
by RobertClark
(Inside every "older" person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened?)

The updates caused Win7 to do what it was originally intended to do, which is scan the touchpad more often to detect multi-finger gestures. Since it wasn’t enabled right in the core OS, a lot of laptop manufacturers upped the sensitivity of the touchpad to compensate. The touchpad is detecting the palms of your hands above the pad.

Most likely, if you go to windows update, there is now an optional update for your touchpad which should control this issue. Myself, I love touchfreeze, and highly recommend it.

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posted on 11/20/2012 4:10:29 PM PST
by kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)

I swear by TouchFreeze, as I use my laptops on planes frequently - not much room to get in a great typing position. This utility has saved me a ton of grief. I’m happy to pass it on and glad it will be useful to you.

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posted on 11/20/2012 4:17:09 PM PST
by RobertClark
(Inside every "older" person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened?)

Yeah, that is probably a smarter solution than going in and editing the registry to disable the touchpad completely, like I did :)

Yes, in the end, it is. Registry edits are not for the novice user, as much damage can be done with one errant keystroke. I never point an average user to the registry - that's would be like handing a teenager a case of beer, a fifth of scotch, a hot 35 year old cougar, and the keys to the hemi Cuda - What could go wrong?!?!?

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posted on 11/20/2012 5:23:31 PM PST
by RobertClark
(Inside every "older" person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened?)

Wow. That’s been driving me crazy. I was sure I was touching my touchpad.

See, I use the touchpad for mouse movements, but always disabled the “double-tap”, because I tend to drag quickly and it would select. I can hit the cursor buttons so I don’t need the touchpad to click.

Anyway, in Windows 7 I can’t find any way to control my touch pad anymore (I’d also like to speed it up). And I assumed that I was touching it and clicking, and that’s why it jumped.

It happened lots when I typed the letter “n”, which is when my thumb swings close to the touchpad.

Anyway, I put that touchfreeze on, and it actually I think installed (my work controls my computer and sometimes I can’t do things). It wasn’t obvious that it actually installed, it said it was installing, and then it was finished.

But I’ll admit I just typed this entire post and my cursor didn’t jump one time, and in the past two weeks anything over a paragraph would jump at least once.

So thanks to everybody who suggested touchfreeze. My work ITG group knew NOTHING about this.

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